REORGANIZING. The Canadian membership of the United Auto...

June 12, 1986

TORONTO — REORGANIZING. The Canadian membership of the United Auto Workers has approved an agreement with the UAW based in Detroit to split the organization into two units and form an independent Canadian union. The vote by 318 delegates representing 135,000 Canadian workers means the end of a 50-year brotherhood between the Canadians and the UAW. The Canadian group became a separate union after 18 months of negotiations with the Detroit leadership. Delegates also approved a name change, to become the Canadian Auto Workers, because the UAW did not want its initials used.